Red Hat News Desk

Red Hat has swept up its messaging, real-time and grid mojo into a little beta pile it's calling Red Hat Enterprise MRG, a distributed computing platform that's optimized to run on top of RHEL, of course, but can work on other platforms as well, it says, either individually or in combination.

It's thinking of Java, Solaris and Microsoft's .NET.

The final product is scheduled for availability early next year.

The "M" is the messaging from the open source ampq.org project that Red Hat helped start. It thinks it's a disruptive technology and will become the standard messaging platform. At least it's working on it. It claims it's seeing 100x performance improvements over proprietary solutions.

The "R" is the real-time Linux kernel, a development mostly of Red Hat's making, it claims, though others might differ. And the "G" is the University of Wisconsin's commercial-strength Condor project that Red Hat is commercializing and supporting for the first time. It's supposed to make ticklish grids easy to deploy.

Red Hat suggests that MRG, which sounds like that stuff they put in Chinese food but actually grows out of the company's newfangled Linux Automation "run anywhere any time" notions, should put it in like Flynn with government agencies and financial houses.

Maybe because the AMQP project involves folks like Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Borse Systems and JP Morgan Chase Bank as well as Iona, Cisco and Novell.

The messaging and grid capabilities are optimized for MRG's real-time capabilities.

MRG should let users schedule large computing tasks across local grids, remote grids, Amazon's EC2 cloud and idle workstations and ensure that all transactions run predictably under all workloads, matching compute capacity to business demands.

The code under Condor is supposed to be open sourced under an OSI-approved open source license. Red Hat will jointly fund further development with the school, punching up Candor's stability and functionality.